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Not so long ago, people were fleeing from the economically epressed country of Albania. Tom Whitehouse reports that better times may be head. Currently the Albanian government is working to stimulate the country's conomy by reviving the tourist industry along the nation's beautiful coastal egions. But the planned development is causing concerns among environmentalists hat are worried the country's last unspoiled region will be damaged.

From northern Bosnia, NPR's Martha Raddatz reports from one of the United States Army base camps. This camp and others like it will be home for the 20-thousand U.S. soldiers who are part of the NATO implementation force. They'll be responsible for patrolling the 200-mile long border between the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Bosnian Serbs.

NPR's Debbie Elliot reports that conservatives are upset over the courtmartial and discharge of Army medic Michael New for refusing to wear a UN patch or blue cap while on a UN peacekeeping mission in Macedonia. New has become a hero to those opposed to the UN because they fear the United States is ceding national sovereignty to a one-world body.

Just who owns jazz? Does it come from an African source? Or is it the result of a confluence of cultures in this country? Saxophonist Archie Shepp believes that jazz belongs to black people, culturally, and that it should be theirs financially too. More from reporter Deal Olsher, on jazz business and jazz history.

NPR's Mike Shuster in Sarajevo reports on problems facing Sarajevo as it nears another important mile-post under the Bosnian peace plan. The Serb suburbs of the city are to be handed over to the Bosnian government this coming weekend under the supervision of an international civilian police force. However, the deployement of those police is slow and crime is on the rise.

The Zairean government today announced it was closing a refugee camp that is home to almost 2-hundred thousand Rwandan refugees. NPR's Michael Skoler reports that the government is trying to force the refugees to return to Rwanda. Many of them have been living in the camp for more than one year, and Zaire now says it can no longer afford to take care of them.

NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports from Los Angeles on Congresswoman Andrea Seastrand's return home to California to visit with her constituents. Seastrand is one of the 73 freshman Republicans in Congress. And like many of her colleagues, Seastrand is now worried how the budget stalemate might impact her re-election campaign this fall.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports on the testimony the Senate Whitewater Committee heard today from former White House communication director Mark Gearan. Gearan was asked about notes he took during a White House meeting just over two years ago regarding the appointment of a special prosecutor -- a move the First Lady opposed but one that the President called for.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on a recent trend among the big automakers of maintaining large reserves of cash, rather like rainy day funds, to serve as a financial cushion during the next recession. In the past the companies have had little in the way of cash reserves and have had to cut back on new projects when sales were down.

NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on an old idea that is coming back to the streets of Lowell, Massachusetts. Community policing is the current way of referring to the cop on the beat...policeman who walks his precinct instead of driving through...as a way to get to know residents and help prevent crime. The one-year old experiment so far has yielded positive results.